Kaiseristn.adj.
/ˈkʌɪz(ə)rɪst/, U.S. /ˈkaɪzərəst/ Originally and chiefly U.S. Now historical.
A. n.
An adherent or supporter of Kaiserism; (sometimes) spec. (depreciative) a person supporting Germany in the First World War (1914–18); a pro-German.
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1880 St. Louis (Missouri) Post-Disp. 20 Mar. 2/2 There live 200,000 native Irish and 175,000 native North Germans, or Kaiserists, upon Manhattan Isle; so that they would neutralize each other if the Irish were all Democrats and the Germans all Republicans.
1917 Amer. Courier (Milwaukee) 1 Dec. 1/2 Kaiserists in the United States and elsewhere claim that the central powers are unconquerable.
1920 Glasgow Herald 10 June 4 The curious relations between Kaiserists and anarchists.
1998 P. Thaler Norwegian Minds–American Dreams iv. 61 To brand the NPL as disloyal and consisting of socialists and ‘Kaiserists’.
B. adj.
Relating to, characterized by, or supporting Kaiserism.
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1914 G. B. Shaw in New Statesman 14 Nov. (Special War Suppl.) 12/1 How would the Germans reply..if their official Militarist and Kaiserist panjandrums had the wit to find the effective reply?
1923 Glasgow Herald 23 May 7 The Kaiserist system of political autocracy.
1993 R. Magraw in C. Wrigley Challenges of Labour vii. 127 The widespread assumption..that Republican France was the innocent victim of kaiserist aggression.
Derivatives
Kaiseˈristic adj. U.S. (now historical) in favour of or supporting Germany in the First World War, pro-German; (also) relating to, characterized by, or supporting Kaiserism.
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1917 Chicago Tribune 9 Sept. viii. 4/6 That type of United States inhabitant with kaiseristic proclivities now rampant in Iowa.
1919 New Appeal (Girard, Kansas) 18 Jan. 4/6 The Tribune's editorials..have generally been in a Kaiseristic vein.
1924 Los Angeles Times 24 May 1/7 Two weeks of imperialistic, monarchistic, and Kaiseristic boasting by the German reactionaries.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2014; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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n.adj.1880